Hardline Hindus push Modi to allow temple on disputed Indian site

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4 January, 2019, 5:35 am

FILE PHOTO: A worker engraves a stone that Hindu groups say will be used to build a Ram temple at a disputed religious site in Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, November 6, 2018. Picture taken November 6, 2018. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar/File Photo

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Hindu nationalists linked to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party urged him on Wednesday to push through laws to allow the building of a temple on the ruins of a 16th century mosque, a flashpoint in tensions with minority Muslims. A long-running dispute over the site in the northern town of […]